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TRIBUTES to former Bacup librarian Dorothy Smith. Dorothy was also a lifelong member of the Rossendale Soroptimists and a regular at the A B & D Centre (website, November 30) Stacey Gledhill: Lovely lady, who I’m sure will be missed by many. R.I.P Dorothy. Beryl Banks: Yes just read it myself sad I wish I had known I would have made my way to see her. Liz Fentem: Worked with Dorothy for quite a while, a lovely lady. Fiona Vlemmiks: What a lovely write up and those are great photos of Aunty Dorothy. She was a great lady.
WEIR’S £346,000 cabling upgrade works will run into 2018. Electricity bosses have explained to baffled drivers why they have reopened trenches on Burnley Road (website, November 29) Daniel Chadwick: When was/is the agreed deadline for this work to end? For every day motorists and local residents are inconvenienced beyond the agreed SLA the utility company should be fined. They’d soon pull their finger out! Stuart Conway: Why do they need two sets of lights? Can’t they start something, finish it and then move onto the next part, instead of having two holes in the road? I’ve never drove past and seen people working on either site. Jill Gansler: Some of us live in between the two sets of lights. Can’t even get to my house because of the queue. Also the queue for the higher set of lights backs down to the lower set and creates gridlock. Andrew Boothman: They had lights up all weekend at the top of Weir when there were no holes, then removed them on Monday. Ruth Seddon: Work always overruns, always. My sympathies to those affected. Hope it ends soon. Stuart Conway: What’s the point of stopping over Christmas when there’s gonna be no traffic?! Craig Walker: They’ll have a budget, so paying workers over Christmas will blow it out of the water, and Tarmac sup- pliers will be closed. Vikki Taberer: I imagine the road and electricity workers would like to have a Christmas too. Most companies who don’t close over the period only have skeleton staff for essential and emergency work. I think it’s a reasonable assumption Electrity North West are the same. Glynis Page: It has been hell, especially when the lights stop working properly. Scott Evans: Those lights need sorting have to wait ages at 2am when there nothing about. Jen Warren: It was gridlock last night on my way home from work! No one could move. Stuart Nuttall: Disgrace. Totally complicated and no care or thought for peak traffic.
HATS off to Heather: Mum’s bus ride knitwear is a big hit. Edgeside Baptist Church treasurer Heather Birch’s ‘X43 hats’ are causing a stir (website, November 29) Claire Whittaker: You’ve spent more than a year of your life on them buses if you’ve been commuting since 1989! Well done on making the most of your time - I love a nice bobble hat. Dawn Kenyon: Fantastic picture and I love my hat. Heather Birch is x Kelly Reeves: Fab. What a lovely lady to do that.
BANK Street shop Sunday Best gets floral makeover for the week. CEO Jan Shutt says the pop-up plant shop was inspired by visits to major European capitals (website, November 22) Gail Forrest: I remember the shop opening when I was a teenager. Loved it.